Visible Thinking: Cognitive Aspects of Change in Drawings

Abstract

GOODNOW, JACQUELINE J. Visible Thinking: Cognitive Aspects of Change in Drawings. CanL DEVELOPMENT, 1978, 49, 637--641. Drawings can be regarded as constructions in which parts are selected and combined in accordance with specifiable rules. This type of approach-one that links the study of drawing to other studies of representation and cognition-has to date concentrated on sequences in construction. The present study asks about the likelihood of various parts being changed when children are asked to represent action (a person picking up an object from the floor, or 2 people, 1 running, the other walking). Results indicate a preference among young children for depicting a change in meaning by altering 1 figure part only, and a slowness, over age, in departing from one linking principle, namely, the placing of all main body units along a single axis at 90* to the ground. Results are considered in terms of some general features of actions with constructive aspects.

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